Uni OVER and work progress update...

Well uni is over for this year... and damn its a relief! Past few weeks I have been working on my final project, Making a DVD menu of all of our work done this year. Handed that in last week after hours in Adobe Encore, but pleased to say I am now finished.

Okay, few things that need to be done now. Met up with Jill Robinson last week day after hand-in, to wrap up our work. We have been asked to produce a batch of copies of the YMCA Documentary film, as it was requested by several people from YMCA's over the country. I suggested for this, that I will make a DVD menu. So I guess the next few weeks I will be doing that. Short clips from the film will also be produced to be put up onto the YMCA website.
Besides that, I have tried to get a copy of the ALIVE project, the green screening from the people we worked with. However, they have not yet completed the edit. So as soon as I get that I will post it up here!

Umm what else... Oh ye I have a client for our final year project. Just to be a bit ahead of the game, Im going to be meeting up with Deborah to discuss the project and hopefully meet the client to sort things out. I have also come up with ideas for my final year research project and some artefacts, but I think I will need to think up a few more. So thats a task for me to think over in the holidays!!

Just realised I haven't uploaded the full version of the YMCA film. Will post that in the next blog. Have a great summer guys and enjoy!

Dome ALIVE Project - Green Screen

I have also accepted an offer from NTU researchers to help them film in green screen for a dome project. I know it's so much with collaborating with fashion students to film their project, and working with YMCA England filming in various locations across the UK, and all the work from uni. But I think doing all of this will help me gain experience that will be valuable for me in the future. Not only will it provide me with practice, but also give me potential companies to work with in the future. So, for this Dome Project, we booked out a fairly large room in the new Newton building (I think its called) and set up a green screen. I've never done this before, so this was new to me. Also, all the equipment was fairly new to me too. We were using the new Panasonic cameras with the green screen attachments. This is an easier way to make a green screen, rather than having a green drop-down to work with.




















We interviewed about 7 people behind a green-screen back-drop. As this film is going to be shown to attract students coming to NTU and attract them to the course, all of the people interviewed were involved in the film industry some way or another. There was one person who owned his own film company in Nottingham called Shadow Smith Film. Another person who was a freelance play writer, a freelance editor and camera-operator, someone else who works with Spool Films and the EM Media Development Agency, an actor, someone who has been a runner on This Is England (2006) by Shane Meadows, and a 2D animator.










































































































































In the end, I learnt how to use green-screen and I networked with people who are in the film industry successfully. I got a few business cards from some of the people and talked about our projects, and talked through with them about how they made their way up in the industry.